Question
26 from
The Most Commonly Asked Questions About
A Course in Miracles
Chapter 3: APPLICATION AND PRACTICE
26) What about congenital defects
or infant deaths? Are these chosen also?
A congenital defect, as well as an infant's death, is not chosen by the brain of the baby, but by the mind that projected a figure in a dream that was born deformed or died at a very early age. Please refer to the diagram for question 16 (http://www.miraclestudies.net/Question16p2.html), and recall that the split mind projects out many thoughts that take form throughout the hologram of time and space. Therefore, if a thought of imperfection or death is entertained by the separated mind, it can be experienced as a congenital defect or an infant death in what is perceived to be the life of an individual. If one returns to our earlier analogy of the body (and brain) as a puppet, carrying out the wishes of the non-human mind, answers to questions like the above will make perfect sense.
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